{"id":39606,"date":"2015-01-21T20:38:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T20:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39606"},"modified":"2015-01-21T20:46:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T20:46:33","slug":"talking-about-critical-mixed-race-studies-in-the-wake-of-ferguson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39606","title":{"rendered":"Talking about Critical Mixed Race Studies in the Wake of Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uwpressblog.com\/2015\/01\/21\/talking-about-critical-mixed-race-studies-in-the-wake-of-ferguson\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Talking about Critical Mixed Race Studies in the Wake of Ferguson<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uwpressblog.com\" target=\"_blank\">University of Washington Press Blog<\/a><br \/>\n2015-01-21<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurakina.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Laura Kina<\/strong><\/a>, Vincent de Paul Professor of Art, Media, &amp; Design<br \/>\n<em>DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In this guest post, Laura Kina, coeditor of <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=22829\" target=\"_blank\">War Baby \/ Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art<\/a><em>, discusses the emerging discipline of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Critical_Mixed_Race_Studies\" target=\"_blank\">mixed race studies<\/a> and what it can contribute to ongoing dialogues surrounding race, police brutality, and social justice in the wake of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shooting_of_Michael_Brown\" target=\"_blank\">Ferguson<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since the deaths this past summer of two unarmed black men, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shooting_of_Michael_Brown\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Brown Jr. in Ferguson, Missouri<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Death_of_Eric_Garner\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York<\/a> by white police officers, our nation has been embroiled in discussions of police brutality and racial profiling. The social unrest and racial tensions of our current moment are a stark contrast to the congratulatory \u201cpost-racial\u201d moment in 2008 with the election of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama<\/a>\u2013the first black \u201cbiracial\u201d president. Recent racial tensions also present stark contrast to the celebration of the multiracial \u201cmelting pot\u201d that America celebrated following the 2000 US Census, which allowed individuals to self-identify as more than one race for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Those earlier, problematic readings of race\u2014as something to either get beyond or as something new and worthy of celebration\u2014coupled with the dearth of history and representations of mixed race Asian American lives inspired my coauthor <a href=\"http:\/\/aas.sfsu.edu\/dariotis-wei-ming\" target=\"_blank\">Wei Ming Dariotis<\/a> and I to publish <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=22829\" target=\"_blank\"><em>War Baby\/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art<\/em><\/a> (University of Washington Press, 2013). Along with my DePaul colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/las.depaul.edu\/departments\/latin-american-and-latino-studies\/faculty\/pages\/camilla-fojas.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Camilla Fojas<\/a>, we also set out to challenge these myths and establish a scholarly field of <a href=\"http:\/\/criticalmixedracestudies.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Mixed Race Studies<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/uwpressblog.com\/2015\/01\/21\/talking-about-critical-mixed-race-studies-in-the-wake-of-ferguson\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking about Critical Mixed Race Studies in the Wake of Ferguson University of Washington Press Blog 2015-01-21 Laura Kina, Vincent de Paul Professor of Art, Media, &amp; Design DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois In this guest post, Laura Kina, coeditor of War Baby \/ Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art, discusses the emerging discipline of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,8,26,394,20],"tags":[847,695,18568,41,17766,19126,42],"class_list":["post-39606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-camilla-fojas","tag-critical-mixed-race-studies","tag-eric-garner","tag-laura-kina","tag-michael-brown","tag-university-of-washington-press-blog","tag-wei-ming-dariotis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}